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BROKEN VOWS (Lucas & Emilia Book 1) by ArianaClarkAuthor
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Choosing her cost me everything I'd ever loved... including her. It's why I left the small town where I grew up and vowed never to return. I'm no longer the "golden boy with a bright future" they all remember. Instead, I carry the scars of a tortured past. A broken man deemed unfit, even by the Navy SEALs he'd dedicated the past decade to serve. What was supposed to be a quick trip to sell my parents' property turned into this twisted journey that forced me to confront my demons. And then there she was. My first love, and deepest regret. The woman who still owns every piece of my blackened heart. When she asked for my time, I couldn't refuse. Now I can't walk away. Not after hearing of the danger her husband, a missing FBI agent, has brought to her doorstep. After everything, I owe her my help. It's why I offer to protect her and her two little girls from the danger circling them. It's a vow I never should have made, given the trail of bodies I've left in my wake. Like the harbinger of death, I'm the last man either of us should trust. In the Broken Redemption Series, one man's vow to protect the woman he lost becomes a battle between redemption, forgiveness, and the kind of love that refuses to let go. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lucas & Emilia's story begins here: Book 1 of their Broken Redemption arc. Each couple's love story in the Broken Redemption Series is told over multiple books and forms a complete arc within this collection of connected romances set in the small town of Ruby Creek. There's no required reading order, but if you'd like to start at the very beginning, you're right where you belong. Lucas & Emilia are the first couple, followed by James & Annelly, whose story begins with Broken Misery (Broken Redemption Series - Book 1 of their arc).
The Wrong Daughter by PrncssBunz
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I never told my family I was the one who saved our home. They let my sister take the credit. At her grand celebration, my eight-year-old daughter spilled juice on her designer shoe. She kicked her. My mother slapped me to the floor in front of two hundred guests and called me nothing. So I made one call. And took everything back. Now the truth is out, and the daughter they dismissed is the one holding their entire world in her hands.
Where the Light Shines by LexieHill82
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Twenty-six years ago, Elise McNeil's life fell apart in a hospital room. While she struggled through labor with their son, her husband Bernard Carpenter was nowhere to be found. Neither was her best friend, Jasmine Daniels. By the time Bernard finally arrived, Elise already knew the truth. The betrayal destroyed her marriage and shattered the life she thought she was building. Forced to start over, Elise rebuilt herself from the ground up. Raised her son, Isaiah, started a successful event-planning company, and learned to survive without depending on anyone else. Love became the last thing on her mind. Then she met Julian Mercer. After losing his wife, Maureen, to a long illness, Julian spent years emotionally frozen in grief. Before they could build the family they dreamed of, she was gone, leaving him trapped between memory and loneliness. Now Maureen's family wants an elaborate memorial event filled with wealth, prestige, and appearances. But Julian wants something far more meaningful. He wants people to remember the woman she truly was. When Elise is hired to coordinate the event, an unexpected connection begins to grow between two people who thought love belonged in the past. What begins as understanding slowly turns into friendship, attraction, and something deeper neither of them expected. But old betrayals do not stay buried forever. Family tensions, jealousy, grief, and unresolved wounds threaten to destroy the fragile happiness they are only beginning to find. Because sometimes the life you rebuild becomes more beautiful than the one you lost.
Illogically Yours by StellerDeller
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When Sonya's kicked out of her apartment, she learns that her boyfriend is a lying liar who lies, and takes the apartment owned by the grumpy owner of The Shop, Billy Saul. As she deals with her new teaching position, and seeing her ex and his woman parading around town, her friendship with Billy grows into something more. Until one night when the tensions are to a boiling point, and Billy decides "F*** it." Just when it all feels like a dream come true, something, and someone, from Billy's past causes Sonya to question everything that happened between them. Does Sonya give him another chance? Or is he just like her ex?
One Night in Nashville by midnightbluewriting
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Minutes before Mariah gets married, her maid of honor shows her a viral video. In it, a woman tells the internet about the magical night she spent with a handsome stranger in Nashville-and asks for help finding the man she believes is her soulmate. Mariah happens to know exactly where he is. He's waiting at the end of the aisle for her. After creating a viral moment of her own, Mariah spends the next two months hiding from the unwanted fame that turned the worst day of her life into a public spectacle-and transformed her into the infamous Burn It All Bride. Then she meets a gruff, devastatingly handsome stranger on a flight who has absolutely no idea who she is. With him, she doesn't have to be the heartbroken bride millions of strangers think they know. She can just be Ivy. And the quiet Texan beside her becomes Tex. When an emergency landing strands them for one night in the city Mariah has cast as the villain in her story, she is determined to make the best of it with the man who is already making Nashville feel different. As the attraction between them becomes impossible to ignore, they agree on three rules. One night. No real names. No promises beyond morning. And no chance of ever forgetting each other. They walk away the next morning believing their perfect night will remain exactly that-a beautiful memory neither of them is allowed to chase. Mariah is still rebuilding the life her cheating fiancé destroyed. And Tex... Tex is trying to start over after betrayal cost him everything he worked years to create. Until fate brings them together again on Beaumont Ranch, and the stranger Mariah promised to leave behind becomes impossible to walk away from twice. Some nights break your heart. Some nights heal you. And some nights change you forever.
I Don't Want This by addie_reads3
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Charlie- From the minute I saw my new boss I wanted to fuck him. I could by the way he looked me up and down that he wanted to fuck me too. Then two months later he made a move. For four bliss filled months he made every sexual fantasy I'd ever had come true. By the time I realised I was falling for him it was too late. I didn't know that he had also realised until he was showing me exactly what he thought of my feelings. He thinks we can just continue as we were but for me there's no coming back from what he's done. Marc- I saw love hearts in her eyes and I freaked out. I took the cowards way out and rather than have a conversation like the 39 year old man I am I decided to show her exactly where we stood. I thought we could just carry on the way we were but Charlie's made it clear that won't be happening. It didn't take me long to realise I'd made a huge mistake. If only I'd realised sooner I also had love hearts in my eyes and I'm living in regret hoping she'll forgive me.
Unfaithful Love( Sequel to Unfaithful Promise) by Gunj40
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They say love can survive almost anything. They never tell you what happens when loneliness moves into a marriage. Lily and Theo Cole had the kind of love most people only dreamed of. After two years of marriage, they believed nothing could ever come between them. Then came the accident , the shattered bones, and the dark depression that stole him away. As Theo struggled to accept the possibility that he might never walk properly again, the confident, loving man Lily married slowly disappeared. She stood by him through every surgery, every setback, and every sleepless night, desperate to reach the husband she was losing. But the more she fought for him, the further he pushed her away. Then came Audrey. Theo's physiotherapist, she helped him take his first steps toward recovery. In the process, she became the person he laughed with, confided in, and leaned on, until he no longer realized he had left his wife standing alone. The day Lily saw Audrey kiss her husband... ...and watched Theo kiss her back... she knew their marriage was over. Only after losing Lily did Theo finally understand that the woman who had never left his side was the one he had taken for granted. But some betrayals leave scars too deep to heal. Can a broken heart learn to trust again, or are some second chances simply too late?
the thread that binds the bones by obeetaybeebaby
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Camden Edson never believed in happily ever after. Men were fine for a good time, but love? Commitment? Marriage? Those belonged in fairy tales, not real life. After watching her father walk away from her family for another woman, Camden built her life around one simple rule: never depend on anyone. Then she met Theo Sullivan. Somehow, the brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon slipped past every defense she had. He became the one person who made forever feel possible. Two years into their marriage, Camden is thriving as a clinical psychologist while Theo begins an intense cardiovascular fellowship at the same hospital. Long hours and opposite schedules leave little time for each other, but every stolen moment reminds Camden why she took the chance. Until one weekend changes everything. When Camden receives an emergency call that her estranged father is being rushed into open-heart surgery, she desperately tries to reach Theo. His phone goes straight to voicemail. Then she calls his best friend. Only to discover Theo was never where he claimed he would be. As old wounds rip open, Camden is forced to confront more than the possibility of her husband's betrayal. She's suddenly responsible for saving the life of the man whose own infidelity destroyed her family, while questioning whether the marriage she fought to believe in was built on the very lie she swore she'd never survive twice. Some hearts can be repaired. Others never heal the same way.
Don't Come Outside by ADOakes
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Chance thought returning home would be the right easy thing to do. Until he realized Anna's still here, and until his best friend's son Pat gets kidnapped. Not only are broken hearts and old wounds resurfaced but so are old enemies. Chance and Anna also must work together especially when he meets Katherine aka Kat. Will Chance save everything this time? Or will he lose himself and everyone he loves?
Too Much Cliché  by Adhuni
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Dr. Karen Miller, a woman defined by quiet competence, carries the curse of her name. Though shy and kind, she is perpetually unseen beneath the spectral shadow of the "high-maintenance Karen" cliché. Five months pregnant with the child her husband, Theo, desired, her reality shatters when she overhears Theo's friend label her a manipulative trap. The accusation is a lie, but Theo's silent, cowardly endorsement reveals a void at the core of their marriage. Now, Karen must break the spell of the stereotype and search for the invisible, true self that Theo failed to defend 📍Copyrights Reserved by : @Adhuni2026